Posts Tagged “creators workshop”

This year, we’ve greatly expanded our Advanced comic book courses — from three courses to six, with even more in-depth coverage of writing, art, and coloring — and half of them are already sold out! Classes with slots still available — although with as few as two slots in some cases — are: * Advanced…

The team behind the acclaimed mini-series Betrayal of the Planet of the Apes — writer Corinna Bechko, co-writer and artist Gabriel Hardman, and Editor Dafna Pleban — joined the Creators Workshop recently, to discuss their work on the BOOM Studios comic. The story, set just before the original Charlton Heston film in the classic Apes…

Writer Mark Sable and artist Paul Azaceta joined the Comics Experience Creators Workshop recently, to discuss their comics careers, and the process of collaboration. Azaceta’s and Sable’s collaborations include, most recently, Graveyard of Empires from Image. In that book, set in Afghanistan, Marines face a never-ending onslaught of Taliban. But even hell can get worse….

Comics Experience Creators Workshop member Ken Porter is a winner in the Top Cow International Talent Hunt competition! As announced on Comic Book Resources, Ken was one of only three writers selected as a winner by Top Cow’s President and Chief Operating Officer, Matt Hawkins, from more than 800 writer submissions. As Matt explained on…

Our Comics Experience alums and Creators Workshop members have been making a lot of comics lately! Here’s a run-down of what some of our community members have been up to! CE alum and Workshop member Carl Peterson has been regularly doing coloring for MAD magazine, and they recently tapped him to color artist Rick Tulka’s…

Recently, comics writer Dirk Manning joined the Creators Workshop for a discussion of his career, and both the craft and business sides of making comics. Dirk is the writer/creator of the Nightmare World trilogy published by Image Comics, Tales of Mr. Rhee, and Love Stories About Death, as well as having a story featured in…

“Robert is an amazing illustrator who has worked on titles for Marvel, DC and IDW. Incidentally, his teaching is on par with his art… Robert has the uncanny ability to make artists feel good about what they have produced even while covering their art in corrections… At the end of a critique, rather than feel bad that I didn’t do the art better, I felt invigorated to have new artistic weapons in my arsenal. As a result of Robert’s instruction, I left every class a better artist. I don’t consider myself a great artist yet, but I feel that I’ve been firmly placed on the path to become one. That’s what a great teacher does. Now, if anyone asks me who my favorite teacher is I can tell them: It’s Robert Atkins.”